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The Solid Earth - Chapter 1: Minerals
Practically every manufactured pr...,
An aggregate of one or more material,
____ implies that the minerals ar...
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The Solid Earth - Chapter 1: The Rock Cycle
One means of viewing many of the ...,
Three basic rock types,
The father of modern geology
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The Solid Earth - Chapter 1: Igneous Rocks
Igneous rocks form when ____ cool...,
Igneous molten rock consists prim...,
Because the magma body is ____ de...
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The Solid Earth - Chapter 1: Sedimentary Rocks
____ begins the process of the or...,
Running water wind waves and glac...,
True or false the particles are n...
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The Solid Earth - Chapter 1: Metamorphic Rocks
Relatively flat regions with exte...,
Metamorphic rocks are an importan...,
True or false metamorphic basemen...
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The Solid Earth - Chapter 1: Resources from Rocks and Minerals
A name for a banded texture that ...,
The name for metamorphic rocks th...,
A rock resulting of calcite cryst...
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The Solid Earth - Chapter 2: Weathering
Disintegration and decomposition ...,
Transfer of rock material downslo...,
Incorporation and transportation ...
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The Solid Earth - Chapter 2: Soil
____ and other processes create soil,
What carry out the intermediary r...,
The earth s land surface is cover...
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The Solid Earth - Chapter 2: Mass Wasting
____ are the most common elements...,
What is a spectacular example of ...,
The downslope movement of rock re...
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The Solid Earth - Chapter 3: The Hydrologic Cycle
True or false over 95 of the wate...,
What is the term for the unending...,
Water from the oceans and contine...
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The Solid Earth - Chapter 3: Running Water
Streams are supplied by ___ and _...,
True or false streams have sculpt...,
This term is used to denote chann...
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The Solid Earth - Chapter 3: Base Level and Graded Streams
The lowest point to which a strea...,
Sea level is considered the ____ ...,
The name for lakes resistant rock...
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The Solid Earth - Chapter 3: Work of Streams
Circular holes that are carved in...,
Sediment that is transported in s...,
Sediment that is transported in s...
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The Solid Earth - Chapter 3: Stream Valleys
Two general types of stream valleys,
Most valleys are much broader at ...,
If a stream is narrow and v shape...
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The Solid Earth - Chapter 3: Drainage Systems and Patterns
Each system that contains a strea...,
The imaginary line that separates...,
This is a term for divides that s...
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The Solid Earth - Chapter 3: Stages of Valley Development
Who proposed that streams were re...,
The three sequential stages into ...,
The valley is considered ____ whe...
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The Solid Earth - Chapter 3: Cycle of Landscape Evolution
While streams are cutting their v...,
True or false until a well establ...,
When the cycle nears the old age ...
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The Solid Earth - Chapter 3: Hydroelectric Power
Name the three primary fuels of o...,
An alternate energy source that c...,
Today the power generated by fall...
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The Solid Earth - Chapter 3: Water Beneath the Surface
True or false the only groundwate...,
Most of the subsurface environmen...,
True or false more groundwater ma...
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The Solid Earth - Chapter 3: Distribution and Movement of Groundwater
Four things that can happen to th...,
Water that is not held near the s...,
The name of water in the zone of ...
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The Solid Earth - Chapter 3: Springs
This is what comes from a water t...,
As water percolates downward a po...
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The Solid Earth - Chapter 3: Wells
The most common device used by pe...,
An opening that is bored into the...,
The single greatest use of ground...
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The Solid Earth - Chapter 3: Artisan Wells
An artesian well is a term for wh...,
Name two conditions that can lead...
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The Solid Earth - Chapter 3: Environmental Problems w Groundwater
What becomes harder when people o...,
True or false there are no issues...,
What might the ground do is water...
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The Solid Earth - Chapter 3: Hot Springs and Geysers
The water in _____ _____ is 10 15...,
What is the basic process for gro...,
The source of heat for most hot s...
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The Solid Earth - Chapter 3: Geothermal Energy
Geothermal energy is produced by ...,
3 favorable geologic factors for ...,
An example of a potent source of ...
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The Solid Earth - Chapter 3: Geologic Work of Groundwater
The primary erosional work carrie...,
Name a rather soluble rock,
Although nearly insoluble by h2o ...
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The Solid Earth - Chapter 4: Types of Glaciers
A thick ice mass that originates ...,
True or false glaciers are absolu...,
Glaciers move at a _____ pace tha...
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The Solid Earth - Chapter 4: Glacial Movement
The name for the movement of glac...,
Name the two basic types of ways ...,
The lowest portions of most glaci...
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The Solid Earth - Chapter 4: Glacial Erosion
As a glacier flows over a fractur...,
The process of ice taking and inc...,
When does plucking occur
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The Solid Earth - Chapter 4: Glacial Deposits
True or false the sediments acqui...,
An all encompassing terms for sed...,
What is a big signifier that depo...
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The Solid Earth - Chapter 4: Glaciers in the Geologic Past
True or false there has only been...,
Four stages of the ice age establ...,
When did the ice age begin
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The Solid Earth - Chapter 4: Indirect Effects of Ice Age Glaciers
Which of the following is not a c...,
The cooler wetter climate resulte...
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The Solid Earth - Chapter 4: Causes of Glaciation
Many believe that ice ages have o...,
What is the most appealing explan...,
Changes in oceanic ___ must have ...
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The Solid Earth - Chapter 4: Deserts
The world s dry regions are among...,
True or false arid regions are no...,
Name three forces that act on des...
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The Solid Earth - Chapter 4: Distribution and Causes of Dry Lands
What percentage of the earth s la...,
Name the two climactic types reco...,
Semiarid represents a ______ zone...
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The Solid Earth - Chapter 4: Geologic Processes in Arid Climates
Which is more common in a desert ...,
True or false deserts do not unde...,
Over long spans of time clays and...
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The Solid Earth - Chapter 4: The Evolution of a Desert Landscape
Deserts are characterized as havi...,
T f interior drainage implies a d...,
In the ____ stage of landscape ev...
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The Solid Earth - Chapter 4: Wind Erosion
Two prerequisites to wind erosion...,
A famous example of extensive win...,
Just like a stream the wind s ___...
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The Solid Earth - Chapter 4: Wind Deposits
Two distinctive types of wind dep...,
This is a material that has been ...,
When loess is breached by streams...
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The Solid Earth - Chapter 5: What is an Earthquake?
Earthquake is the _____ of earth ...,
The energy radiates in all direct...,
What form do the energy releases ...
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The Solid Earth - Chapter 5: Earthquake Waves
The study of earthquake waves,
The instruments that record earth...,
The records produced by seismographs
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The Solid Earth - Chapter 5: Location of Earthquakes
The location on the surface direc...,
The greatest energy is released a...
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The Solid Earth - Chapter 5: Earthquake Intensity and Magnitude
Who invented the intensity scale,
The measure of the effects of a q...,
3 factors that play into earthqua...
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The Solid Earth - Chapter 5: Earthquake Destruction
Ground motion is ____ when the na...,
This happens in areas where uncon...,
Destructive waves that are associ...
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The Solid Earth - Chapter 5: Earthquake Prediction
3 types of measuring tools to pre...,
Long term forecasts are based on ...
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The Solid Earth - Chapter 5: The Earth's Interior
The very thin outer layer of the ...,
The rocky layer under the crust w...,
The thick layer that exhibits the...
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The Solid Earth - Chapter 5: Composition of the Earth
The continental crust is made mos...,
What is the name of the deep sea ...,
____ rocks are thought to make up...
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The Solid Earth - Chapter 6: Continental Drift
The splitting of continental bloc...,
Alfred wegener set forth the basi...,
One of alfred wegener s major ten...
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The Solid Earth - Chapter 6: Plate Tectonics
What is the theory of plate tecto...,
Where are plates the thinnest,
What is the hotter weaker zone be...
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The Solid Earth - Chapter 6: Testing the Model
What is the most persuasive evide...,
The two poles of the earth s magn...,
Invisible lines of ____ pass thro...
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The Solid Earth - Chapter 6: Pangaea
____ dating helped dietz and hold...,
The fragmentation of pangaea bega...,
True or false pangaea is the only...
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The Solid Earth - Chapter 7: Nature of Volcanic Activity
The primary factors to determine ...,
How great something s resistance ...,
As lava cools and begins to conge...
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The Solid Earth - Chapter 7: Materials Extruded
All volcanic eruptions emit large...,
Due to their low silica content _...,
True or false occasionally the mo...
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The Solid Earth - Chapter 7: Volcanoes and Volcanic Eruptions
A central vent from which success...,
This is located at the summit of ...,
This is the name for summit depre...
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The Solid Earth - Chapter 7: Fissure Eruptions
The largest amounts of volcanic m...,
The name for waterlike flows that...,
When silica rich magma is extrude...
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The Solid Earth - Chapter 7: Volcanoes and Climate
True or false explosive eruptions...,
The greatest eruptions are suffic...,
What is the basic premise behind ...
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The Solid Earth - Chapter 7: Intrusive Igneous Activities
Intrusive igneous bodies form whe...,
Name two ways that intrusive igne...,
Name two ways that intrusive igne...
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The Solid Earth - Chapter 7: Igneous Activity and Plate Tectonics
T f the earth s crust and mantle ...,
Although the outer core is in a f...,
True or false the molten outer co...
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The Solid Earth - Chapter 8: Crustal Uplift
The name for the processes that c...,
The fossilized shells of marine i...,
What role do terraces play in hel...
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The Solid Earth - Chapter 8: Rock Deformation
What are two common ways rocks mi...,
When do rocks begin to deform,
When stress is applied rocks resp...
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The Solid Earth - Chapter 8: Mountain Types
Give the four main categories of ...,
True or false there are structure...,
Most orogenesis occurs in ____ en...
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The Solid Earth - Chapter 8: Mountain Building
Give a couple examples of relativ...,
Some mountains including the ____...,
Give a couple of examples of olde...
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The Solid Earth - Chapter 9: Historical Notes
Early belief that earth had mostl...,
Publisher of the theory of the earth,
Hutton s doctrine that makes up a...
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The Solid Earth - Chapter 9: Relative Dating
Define absolute dating,
Today our understanding of ____ a...,
This means that rocks are placed ...
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The Solid Earth - Chapter 9: Correlation
The process of matching up rocks ...,
What is a limitation of correlation,
What do geologists rely on when t...
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The Solid Earth - Chapter 9: Fossils
The branch of geology devoted to ...,
The remains or traces of organism...,
What is the clever little one lin...
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The Solid Earth - Chapter 9: Radioactivity and Radiometric Dating
We know that the earth is 46b yea...,
True or false a neutron is techni...,
In some isotopes the ____ is unst...
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The Solid Earth - Chapter 9: Geologic Time Scale
Name the eons from oldest to youn...,
Name the eras of the phanerozoic ...,
Name the periods of the paleozoic...
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The Solid Earth - Chapter 9: Life of the Geologic Past
When did life evolve,
Why was the life evolved during t...,
Although fossils from that time a...
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